ESF2 – Wild Pollen and Nectar Flowers

Composition

Pollen and nectar is provided by a wide range of wild flowers. ESF2 contains species that have been shown to be particularly important to bumblebees like red clover and birdsfoot trefoil as well as open flowered plants like wild carrot and oxeye daisy which are important for other beneficial insect groups such as hoverflies. ESF2 sown with a grass mix can develop into flower-rich stable grassland. With the longer lived genuine wild red clover and other plants it offers a long lived sustainable alternative to the short-lived pollen and nectar mixtures based on agricultural forage varieties.

Wild Flowers

%	Latin name	Common name
5	Achillea millefolium	Yarrow
10	Centaurea scabiosa	Greater Knapweed
15	Daucus carota	Wild Carrot
10	Galium verum	Lady's Bedstraw
10	Leucanthemum vulgare	Oxeye Daisy
5	Lotus corniculatus	Birdsfoot Trefoil
10	Prunella vulgaris	Selfheal
10	Ranunculus acris	Meadow Buttercup
10	Silene vulgaris	Bladder Campion
10	Trifolium pratense	Wild Red Clover
5	Vicia cracca	Tufted Vetch
100

Sowing Rates

kg/ha	kg/acre	g/m2	Order Mixture
2	1	0.2	Order this mixture

This flower mixture is designed to be sown with a grass mix such as ESG1 or ESG2. These grass mixtures are usually be sown @ 20kg/ha which with the 2kg/ha recommended rate of ESF2 gives a combined sowing rate of 22kg/ha.